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SHIRT BOSOM AND NEGKBAND IRONER.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FULLER, MINNEAPOLIS, MIN NESOTA,AS SIGNOR, BY DIRECT- AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO FRANK R. FULLER AND \VILLIAM H.

JAOOBY, BOTH OF SAME PLACE,

SH |RT BOSOM AND NECKBAND moses.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,757, dated November 2, 1886.

Application filed September 15, 1885. Serial No. 177.211.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES A. FULLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in Shirt Bosom and Neckband 'Ironers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in an IO ironing-board and shaper designed for use in ironing the bosoirs and neckbands of shirts; and my invention consists, generally, in'the' construction and combination of devices hereinafter described;and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,Figure 1 is aperspective View of a device embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of a portion of the same with a shirt in position thereon. Fig. 3 is a section on line x m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail.

A in the drawings represents the base or support, which may be of any suitable size, shape, or construction.

B is the bosom-board, which may be of any preferred size, shape, and construction. The board B is supported at the end carrying the neckband-shaper by a standard, 0 0', having a universal joint, 0 therein for a purpose hereinafter stated. The other end of the board is supported by any suitable means, as a leaf, A, hinged to the support A, and adapted to be turned up under the board B, as shown in 5 Fig. 1.

Upon the board B, atone end thereof, is supported an oval block, D, whose thickness is about'equal to the width of a neckband, and having its edge substantially perpendicular to slotted at d, through its center, as shown in Fig. 2, and a bolt, D, having a washer, cl, and thumb-nut (2 projects through this slot. The block is also slotted at d, and a bar, E, fits 4 5 within this slot and is held therein by the bolt D. This bar serves as a way, upon which the block is free to slide back and forth over the surface of the board B. By means of the thumbnut and the bolt the block may be clamped at 0 any point. Agage-plate, F, having slots f in its ends, is secured to the block D by screws f thereon.

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By means of the slots and screws this plate may be set at the proper point. The washer (7 has a pointer upon one side, opposite the gage plate, and by this the block may be correctly adjusted. The bar E projects beyond the end of the board B, and guides two plates, G, which slide in recesses formed in the upper and lower edges or faces of the bar, as shown in Fig. 3. These plates G are connected together at one end by a crossblock, g, and between their opposite ends an eccentric, I, is pivoted. A bar or plate, H, slides through an opening in the bar E, between plates G G, and an opening in crossbar or .block 9. The plate H is provided at one end with a crossbar, h, against which the eccentric I bears.

Each of the cross-bars g it has secured to it a clasp, K, which is adapted tograsp the end of the neckband and hold it securely while it is 7:: being ironed. These clasps consist, preferably, of two metal straps, that are hinged to the cross-bars g and h and adapted to turn The end of one strap is provided with a pin, it, adapted to enter the button-hole in the neckband. The other strap has a hole to receive such pin, and also a claw adapted to grasp and hold the cloth of the neckband, ora button, should there be one thereon. The clasps are each provided with a slide, it, by which they are locked in a grasping position. The shirt is slipped over the bosom-board, and the neckband brought around the edge of the block D. The block is then set with the pointer opposite the mark on the gage-plate that corresponds with the size of the neckband. The eccentric I is then turned by means of the handle I, and thus the plates G are drawn across and plate H-pushed through the bar E, thereby drawing the blocks or crossbars 9 h together. By this operation the clasps K are drawn together, bringing the neckband closely around the edge of the block. In order that the neckband may be smoothly ironed, it is desirable that the shaper or block be turned so that the iron may be pressed downward directly onto the neckband. The universal j oint in the standard 0 0 permits this movement of the shaper. The board B may be raised from the support A and turned 10 upon the universal joint until the barE is perpendicular to the base A. This brings the under part of the ueekbaud uppermost, so that it maybe readily and easily ironed. The board may then be turned to bring first one edge and then the other against the upper surface of the base, the surface of the board being then perpendicular to thcsnrface of the base. By these movements first one side and then the other of the neckband is brought uppermost and into position to be ironed.

LL and M are clamps for holding a shirt in position.

The standard 0 G is shown provided with a ball-an(l-socl etjoint,but any other well-known form of universal joint may be used as an equivalent therefor. Other equivalent means may be used for securing the elasps and d rawing them together.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with a supporting-base, of a bosonrboard having a neckband block or shaper thereon, and a standard between said base and said board with a universal joint therein, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the bosom-board B, the longitudinally-adj ustable neekband'shaper D, sliding thereon, and elasps for holding the neckband upon said shaper, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the bosom-board B, the longitndinally-adjustable neekband-shap er D, sliding thereon, provided with the gage plate F, and elasps for holding the neekband upon said shaper, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the boson'rboard B, of the sliding block D, means for clamping said block, the neckband-clasps K, the sliding plates G G H, having cross-bars g and h, projecting bar E, and eccentric I, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my hand this 2d day of July, 1885.

CHARLES A FULLER.

In presence of ARTHUR N. JORDAN, AMASA 0. PAUL. 

